Thanks to Austen Parrish for drawing our attention to the following event: On Friday, October 3, 2008, Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, California is hosting a symposium on Arctic Sovereignty – titled Arctic Sovereignty: Cold Facts, Hot Issues. Drawing on Southwestern’s strong ties with Canada, this one-day symposium will bring together leading legal figures from throughout North America to analyze the critical issues raised by the Arctic sovereignty debate. With the Arctic ice melting, Russia’s flag-planting at the North Pole last summer, recent Canadian activity in the north, renewed U.S. interest in the Law of the Sea Convention, and…